Too much science-babble obscures the truth of Perestroika. The tragedy of the aftermath would have made a better story unvarnished Slava Tsukerman has seen a lot come and go since his cult indie hit .Liquid Sky,. a sci-fi send up from the 1980.s urban sub-culture. In this relatively down to earth treatment of the scandalous re-structuring of 1990s Ussr an expatriate Soviet nuclear scientist returns to Moscow after 17 years in the USA to be greeted as part hero and part capitalist icon. As he prepares to deliver his paper on the origins and future of the universe, Sasha Greenberg (Sam Robards) is forced to confront his own feelings about leaving his homeland. He has had a better life...
- 4/17/2009
- by Ron Wilkinson
- Monsters and Critics
The production notes for "Perestroika" state that its Russian writer-producer-director, Slava Tsukerman, has made 43 films.
The only one that captured attention in the Us was the cult hit "Liquid Sky" (1982), in which space aliens land on the roof of a downtown Manhattan penthouse in search of a chemical released during sex.
"Perestroika" forgoes aliens -- but not sex -- to tell the story of the director's alter ego, Sasha Greenberg (Sam Robards), an astrophysicist who returns to his native Moscow after 17 years of self-exile in America.
The only one that captured attention in the Us was the cult hit "Liquid Sky" (1982), in which space aliens land on the roof of a downtown Manhattan penthouse in search of a chemical released during sex.
"Perestroika" forgoes aliens -- but not sex -- to tell the story of the director's alter ego, Sasha Greenberg (Sam Robards), an astrophysicist who returns to his native Moscow after 17 years of self-exile in America.
- 4/17/2009
- by By V.A. MUSETTO
- NYPost.com
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